The Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard Street

"One World" Musical Influences

Vladimir Tarnopolski, Impression-Expression III
for piano, flute, clarinet and string trio (1996)

*Alla Borzova, Majnun Songs
Text by 7th Century Arab poet

These two major works reflect Sonic Boom's "multi-national" theme. Vladimir Tarnopolski, director of the Moscow Centre Contemporary Music, has been a
professor at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory since 1992. Alla Borzova is an American composer whose life led her here from Belarus. Their musical voices reflect a rich and many-faceted background.  The concert is part of the SONIC BOOM 11 festival, which includes concerts by the member groups of Sonic Boom and by guest ensembles and soloists. 

Da Capo guests

• James Rio, tenor
• Nadia Moussa, dancer
• Margaret Kampmeier, piano
• Victor Schultz, violin
• David Bowlin, violin
• Lois Martin, viola
• Daniel Mallon, riq
• Alla Borzova, conductor

Merkin Concert Hall, 8:00 pm

Stefan Wolpe Centenary Program

Da Capo Chamber Players
Patricia Spencer, flute
Meighan Stoops, clarinet
André Emelianoff, cello

Guest Artists:
Melvin Chen, piano
Jane Chung, violin
Amy Mendillo, oboe

• Musik zu Hamlet (1929) Stefan Wolpe (1902-1972)
  Ms. Spencer, Ms. Stoops, Mr. Emelianoff
• Three Canons for Two Voices with the Accompaniment of a Third Voice (from Music for Any Instruments) (1944) Stefan Wolpe
  • Un poco sostenuto
  • Andante
  • Allegretto grazioso
    Ms. Spencer, Ms. Stoops, Ms. Chen, Mr. Emelianoff
• Three Canons from Studien für den Pedal-Flügel, Op. 56 (1845) Robert Schumann (1810-1856)
  Ms. Chung, Mr. Emelianoff, Mr. Chen(arr. Theodore Kirchner)
• Inner Song (1992) Elliott Carter (b. 1908)
  Ms. Mendillo
• Suite im Hexachord (1936) Stefan Wolpe
  • I Allegro commodo
  • II Pastorale
  • III Fuge
  • IV Adagio
  Ms. Mendillo, Ms. Stoops
  
  INTERMISSION
  
• Canon for Four (1984) Elliott Carter
  Ms. Spencer, Ms. Stoops, Ms. Chen, Mr. Emelianoff
• The War between the Mice and Frogs (2000) Matthew Greenbaum (b. 1950)
  • I Giga
  • II Fugato
  • III Tempo di Minuetto
  • IV Tempo di Corrente
  • V Giga
  Mr. Emelianoff
• On Sixths, No. 3, untitled (1948) from Music for Any Instruments (arr. Patricia Spencer) World Premiere Stefan Wolpe
  Ms. Spencer, Ms. Stoops, Ms. Chen, Mr. Emelianoff
• Trio In two parts (1964) Stefan Wolpe
  Ms. Spencer, Mr. Emelianoff, Mr. Chen

The groundbreaking music of Stefan Wolpe was an inspiration to many of the composers Da Capo has championed over the years.  The centenary of Wolpe's birth provides an impetus for a much-needed rediscovery of his work.

Program notes  for this concert.

Esber Recital Hall in Music Building I
Allen Street near the corner of Park Avenue and Allen, State College, PA
(admission free)

•  Patricia Spencer, flute
• Meighan Stoops, clarinet
• André Emelianoff, cello

Guest artists:

• Jane Chung, violin
• Melvin Chen, piano

Program:

Charles Wuorinen, Bearbeitungen über Das Glogauer Liederbuch 

Arnold Schoenberg, Three Canons 

Stefan Wolpe, Trio for Flute, Cello, and Piano 

Robert Schumann, Skizzen, Op. 56  

Penka Kouneva, Climbing the Ladder of Unraveling Rope*  

JoanTower, Petroushskates*

 *Commissioned by and written for the Da Capo Chamber Payers

• Patricia Spencer, flute
• Meighan Stoops, clarinet
• David Bowlin, violin
• Lois Martin, viola
• André Emelianoff, cello
• Blair McMillen, piano

da capo in Moscow, standing at the foot of the statue of Tchaikovsky, in front of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, following our performance there

• Charles Wuorinen (b.1938) Bearbeitungen über Das Glogauer Liederbuch (1962)
  • I. Pauli de Broda - Carmen
  • II. Dy Ezels Crone
  • III.Der Notter Schwantcz
  • IV. Der Entrepris
  • V. Helas le Bon Temps [Tinctoris]
  • VI. Gross Ssenen [Tertius]
• Kammerstück Kirill Umansky (b. 1962)
• November 19, 1828 (1988) John Harbison (b. 1938)
  Hallucination in four episodes for piano and string trio
  • I Introduction: Schubert crosses into the next world
  • II Suite: Schubert finds himself in a hall of mirrors
    1. Theme  
    2. Éccocaise  
    3. Moment Musicale 
    4. Impromptu 
    5. Valse
  • III Rondo: Schubert recalls a rondo fragment from 1816
  • IV Fugue: Schubert continues the fugue subject (S-C-H-U-B-E-R-T) which Sechter assigned him.

  November 19, 1828 is a National Endowment for the Arts Commission, composed for the Atlanta Chamber Players, the Da Capo Chamber Players, and Voices of Change.
  
  INTERMISSION

• Machaut Is My Beginning (1989) Bruce Adolphe (b. 1955)
  A recomposition of "Ma fin est mon commencement" by Guillaume de Machaut (1300-1377), written for the Da Capo Chamber Players.
• Eleven Echoes of Autumn, 1965 (1966) George Crumb (b. 1929)
  1. Eco 1. Fantastico
  2. Eco 2. Languidamente, quasi lontano ("hauntingly")
  3. Eco 3. Prestissimo
  4. Eco 4. Con bravura
  5. Eco 5. Cadenza I (for Alto Flute)
  6. Eco 6. Cadenza II (for Violin)
  7. Eco 7. Cadenza III (for Clarinet)
  8. Eco 8. Feroce, violento
  9. Eco 9. Serenamente, quasi lontano ("hauntingly")
  10. Eco 10. Senza misura ("gently undulating") Eco 11. Adagio ("like a prayer")
  11. Motto-quote, ". . . y los arcos rotos donde sufre el tiempo" by Federico García Lorca (". . . and the broken arches where times suffers"), is intoned in Echoes 5-7.
• Petroushskates (1980) Joan Tower (b. 1938)
  Written for the 10th Anniversary of the Da Capo Chamber Players

Participation of the Da Capo Chamber Players has been made possible in part through support from The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, a public-private partnership of the National Endowment for the Arts, the U.S. Department of State, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and The Rockefeller Foundation, with additional support from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and administered by Arts International.

Background information about da capo's appearance at the Moscow Forum International Festival.

Merkin Concert Hall, 8:00 pm

Winds of Spring

Joan Tower, Turning Points
Steve Mackey, Humble River
Padma Newsome, St. Vitus Dance . . . All Fall Down
Mario Davidovsky, Quartetto

Help us celebrate the bright, colorful sound world of Da Capo's mixed wind/string combination!

**World premiere, written for the Da Capo Chamber Players
*To be recorded by the Da Capo Chamber Players